Holding challenges Nationals to name dam plans

Victorian Water Minister Tim Holding is challenging the National party to release a detailed dams policy before the state election in November.

The Nationals announced a change in policy this week ruling out a dam on the Mitchell River in East Gippsland or any of its tributaries.

The decision coincided with a Liberal Party survey showing voters overwhelmingly opposed new dams.

Mr Holding says neither the National party nor the Liberals have completely ruled out building new dams in the Otways and on the Gellibrand River.

"Is it going to be somewhere in the Otways, is it going to be a dam on the Gellibrand River, on the Maribyrnong River as they said at the last election, are they still going to extend Big Buffalo dam in northern Victoria or Lake William Hovell?" he said.

"They need to come clean and tell Victorian's exactly where their proposed dams are going to be."